The sounds of "taxi", cars and bicycles, the roaring of pigeons, the words of residents and strangers, as well as the concerns of libraries, voices of the subway and public transportation and the roar of planes in New York City that spent days and weeks in quarantine, and during this period witnessed silence and unusual silence, and replaced with the noise of the city voices Quiet for winds and birds.
Covering the New York University project that monitors the city's noise pollution patterns and the rhythm of its voices over the years, the American New York Times concludes that the city's audio recordings state that 29 of the 30 quietest days in New York City during the past three years were during the Corona pandemic, while it was The exception to the share of Christmas Eve 2018.
In an attempt to summon the missing voices in the quarantine period and highlight its exceptional beauty, the New York Public Library of the city presented a gift of lost votes during the Corona pandemic crisis, and released it in an album titled "The New York Missing Sounds" and described it as a "love letter" to the city.
Likewise, Cities and Memories has collected field records from around the world over the past five years, but recently launched a new campaign to build a collective voice map of the world, showing how the usual sounds have changed and some have diminished while new voices such as applause for health care teams have gained more momentum.
Sounds and philosophy
Sounds acquire special significance from a philosophical perspective, given their dual nature. On the one hand, they are produced through material bodies that constitute their source and origin, but on the other hand they are “embodied” by themselves and separate from their human or material sources, and possessing their distinctive characteristics such as their tone.
American academic John Andrew Fisher notes in "Aesthetic Education" that sounds are an integral part of our experience in nature, and attractive sounds in particular are what make many natural places particularly desirable.
Although Fischer writes about "natural" rather than human voices, his idea can be applied to human and industrial voices, as the noise of New York City is an important part of the city's composition that gives it its distinctive profile, according to an article by author Ashtona Jackson who lives in Brooklyn and writes for a journal. Scientific Jstor.
Although these beautiful natural sounds cannot be separated from a person's experience of enjoying beauty, humans do not make much effort to summon the sounds they hear as they remember visual images.
The American newspaper report says that people suddenly began to feel nostalgic for the noise that was bothering them, during the quarantine and closures imposed by the authorities on many cities around the world, in an attempt to avoid a greater outbreak of the Corona pandemic.
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